Lancaster Buy Fresh Buy Local

Join Lancaster BFBL, the Local Economy Center, and the Wohlsen Center for a Sustainable Environment (F&M College) this season for a series of thought-provoking movies and discussion looking at the ways we grow, process, and buy our food.

THE GARDEN

Thursday, May 6

7pm

Stahr Auditorium in Stager Hall at Franklin & Marshall College

The 14-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of its kind in the United States.  Started after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods, growing their own food, feeding their families, and creating a community.

But what happens when urban farmers meets hardball politics? Follow their gripping story in this award-winning documentary by Scott Hamilton Smith, filmed as the drama unfolded.

The movie will be followed by a discussion led by Jeffrey Montez de Oca (Prof. of Sociology F&M College)

Free and open to the public (donations are welcome!)
For the location of Stager Hall, go to http://www.fandm.edu/map

Co-sponsored by Lancaster BFBL, the Wohlsen Center for the Sustainable Environment and the Local Economy Center, Franklin & Marshall College.

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Lancaster Buy Fresh Buy Local® is enrolling community members for its 2010 Volunteer Class.  We’re having an information session on

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

from 7pm – 8pm

at 214 W. Grant Street  in downtown Lancaster.

Bring a chair to sit in and join us at the LBFBL table!  Find out what we’re up to next year, and get involved! There are lots of opportunities to help the Lancaster BFBL campaign and our mission to get the word out on behalf of local foods and local farms.

For more information email amy@lancasterfarmfresh.com

You can also call our Outreach Coordinator at (717) 380-7280, or Amy at (717) 306-8672.